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input of said distinctive signal detection means and responsive to said timing signal to remove certain of said time spaced signals adjacent said distinctive signal prior to application of said recurrent signals to the input of said detection means to thereby prevent interaction between said distinctive signal and said certain of said time spaced signals in said detection means to provide an accurately timed timing signal.

2. A timing signal generator for employment in time division multiplex receiving terminals for producing sequentially timed signals to control the separation and demodulation of correspondingly timed channel signals of a multiplex signal train including a plurality of time spaced signal channels and a synchronizing signal, comprising a synchronizing signal detector for producing from the synchronizing signal of said pulse train a gate signal and a circuit arrangement coupled to the input of said synchronizing signal detector and responsive to said gate signal to remove certain of the channel signals of said pulse, which precede said synchronizing signal prior to application of said pulse train to said synchronizing signal detector.

3. A timing signal generator for employment in time division multiplex receiving terminals for producing sequentially timed signals to control the separation and demodulation of correspondingly timed channel signals of a multiplex signal train including a plurality of time spaced signals channels and a synchronizing signal comprising a synchronizing signal detector for producing from the synchronizing signal of said pulse train a gate signal, a gating device coupling said pulse train to said synchronizing signal detector, a gate signal distributor coupled to the output of said synchronizing signal detector to distribute said gate signal as a plurality of sequentially timed signals corresponding to the time position of the channel signals of said pulse train, and means coupling certain of these timed signals from said distributor to said gating device for activation thereof to remove certain of the channel signals of said pulse train adjacent said synchronizing signal prior to application of said pulse train to said synchronizing signal detector.

4. A timing signal generator for employment in time division multiplex receiving terminals for producing sequentiallj, timed signals to control the separation and demodulation of correspondingly timed channel pulses of a multiplex pulse train including a plurality of time spaced channel pulses and a marker pulse comprising a marker pulse detector for producing from the marker pulse of said pulse train a gate pulse, a gating device coupling said pulse train to said marker pulse detector, a delay line having a plurality of time spaced taps therealong coupled to said marker detector to distribute said gate pulse as a plurality of sequentially timed pulses corresponding to the time positions of the channel pulses of said pulse train, and means coupling certain of these timed gate pulses from said time spaced taps to said gating device for activation thereof to remove certain of the channel pulses of said pulse train adjacent said marker pulse prior to application of said pulse train to said marker pulse detector.

v 5. A timing signal generator for employment in time division multiplex receiving terminal for producing sequentially timed signals to control the separation and demodulation of correspondingly timed channel pulses of a multiplex pulse train including twenty-three time spaced channel pulses and a marker pulse comprising a marker pulse detector for producing from the marker pulse of said pulse train a gate signal, a gating device coupling said pulse train to said marker pulse detector, a delay line having a plurality of time spaced taps therealong coupled to said marker detector to distribute said gate pulse as sequentially timed pulses corresponding to the time positions of the channel signals of said pulse train, and means coupling timed pulses of a number of time spaced taps of said delay line corresponding to a number of time positions immediately preceding said marker pulse to said gating device for activation thereof to remove the corresponding channel pulses of said pulse train prior to application of said pulse train to said marker pulse detector.

6. A time division multiplex signal receiving terminal comprising a receiver delivering at the output thereof a pulse train including a plurality of time spaced signal channels and a synchronizing signal, a plurality of channel demodulators equal in number to the signal channels of said pulse train coupled to the output of said receiver, a gate signal distributor to sequentially time theoperation of each of said demodulators for separation of their correspondingly timed signal channel from said pulse train, a synchronizing signal detector for producing from the synchronizing signal of said pulse train a gate signal, means coupling the gate signal to said distributor, a gating device coupling the input of said synchronizing signal detector to the output of said receiver, and means to couple certain timed outputs of said distributor to said gating device for -activation thereof to remove correspondingly timed signal channels from said pulse train which precede said synchronizing signal prior to application of said pulse train to said synchronizing signal detector.

7. A time division multiplex signal receiving terminal comprising a receiver delivering at the output thereof a pulse train including a plurality of time spaced channel pulses and a marker pulse, a plurality of channel demodulators equal in number to the channel pulses of said pulse train coupled to the output of said receiver, a delay line having a plurality of time spaced taps therealong to provide sequentially timed gate pulses to sequentially time the operation of each of said demodulators for separation of their correspondingly timed channel pulses from said pulse train, a marker pulse detector for producing from the marker pulse of said pulse train a gate signal, means coupling the gate signal to said delay line, a gating device coupling the input of said marker pulse detector to the output of said receiver, and means to couple certain taps of said delay line, corresponding to time positions immediately preceding said marker pulse, to said gating device for activation thereof to remove correspondingly timed channel pulses from said pulse train prior to application of said pulse train to said marker signal detector.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,537,056 Hoeppner Ian. 9, 1951 2,605,360 Trevor July 29, 1952 2,664,509 Trevor Dec. 29, 1953 

